Ghana Oil and Gas for Inclusive Growth (GOGIG)
This innovative five year governance programme is promoting inclusive economic growth in Ghana by improving the management of the country’s oil and gas resources.
Mark Henstridge
Mark is our Chief Executive Officer. He joined OPM as Chief Economist in 2012, with responsibility for setting the strategic direction of our work in development economics. Before joining us, Mark was Acting Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC), an initiative funded by DFID at LSE and the University of Oxford. He was Head of Macroeconomics at BP, and has previously worked in the African and Fiscal Affairs Departments of the International Monetary Fund, on Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, and Egypt. Mark has also worked in Uganda’s Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning.
Mark has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc from Bristol University. He is a Research Associate of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies at the University of Oxford.
For an example of some of Mark's work, take a look at Tanzania: The Path to Prosperity, the impact of covid-19 on low- and middle-income countries, After the pandemic? A global UK, and our event on expanding development diagnostics.
Projects involving Mark Henstridge
Economic development and institutions (EDI): cutting-edge research to shape policy reform
This multi-year research programme provides a body of evidence and insights into institutional changes and their impact on economic development.
RISE: Improving education systems in low-income countries
This research programme will provide key insights and policy-relevant evidence to support improved learning outcomes for children across the world.
Mining benefits study, Tanzania
Tanzania’s mining industry has played a pivotal role in the country’s economic growth over the last 15 years. But the success at the national level risks obscuring the challenges faced by the local communities around mines - where, despite the best efforts of the mining companies, there is considerable dissatisfaction with the industry.
Analysis of growth in Indonesia
Studying the sustainability of Indonesia's growth to inform future climate change policy
Latest updates from Mark Henstridge
An aid idea Britain should champion at the G7 - a letter to the Financial Times
A letter to the Financial Times from our CEO, Mark Henstridge, published on 4 June 2021, outlining a method by which Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) could be deployed at scale to benefit low-income countries.
The impact of the covid-19 pandemic on low- and middle-income countries
Our Chief Economist, Mark Henstridge, outlines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low- and middle-income countries.
Working paper: Thicker policy diagnostics
The central challenge for economic policy in a developing country is to sustain or raise rates of economic growth.
After the pandemic…doing development better
2021 already has some hope of being better than 2020. In this blog, our CEO, Mark Henstridge reflects on why, in a post-pandemic world how aid gets spent and secures impact is often more important than how much we spend – for developing countries as well as donor countries.
After the Pandemic: a global UK?
Low-income countries in Africa face a long hard road to recovery. The UK could catalyse and lead global support and change the future for developing countries.
After the Pandemic: the economic impact on low-income countries, and what can be done?
How bad is the impact of the pandemic on low-income countries? How long will it last? And what can be done to accelerate recovery?
Cases, deaths, and lock-downs: the variety of pandemic data and uniformity of response
Read OPM’s latest blog by our Chief Economist, Mark Henstridge, discussing a new paper on the imact of COVID-19 on low- and middle-income countries
Development finance and the macro economic impact of Covid-19
New research highlights the need for additional multilateral finance coupled with impactful reform to accelerate post-pandemic recovery.
Making Special Drawing Rights work better for global development
How can we unlock aid finance to support low-income countries that have been hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic?
After the Lockdown
Using epidemiological and macroeconomic models to set out the adjustment to the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa